Deborah L. Benzil, MD, FACS, FAANS is the Vice-Chair of Neurosurgery at Cleveland Clinic, Professor of Neurosurgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and a founding member of Women in Neurosugery (WINS). She is widely published on many topics, most pertinent to this conversation, is her 2008 white paper, “The future of neurosurgery: a white paper on the recruitment and retention of women in neurosurgery” which informed the expansion of the Women's Professional Staff Association, years before she was recruited to join Cleveland Clinic.